Best of 2011: The Big Trends of the Year for Microsoft Dynamics

Of the more than 400 Microsoft Dynamics articles that MSDynamicsWorld.com has posted in 2011, a few high level trends stand out for the year.  Some news items represented a goal - the result of dedicated planning, preparation, and execution either by Microsoft, the Dynamics partner channel,  a customer, or others in the Dynamics ecosystem.   Other potent topics caught the attention of our readers for their importance for the industry now or in the future.

We'll dive into the top stories for the individual Dynamics products in separate articles coming up soon, but to start off, let's look at the big themes that defined the evolution of the Microsoft Dynamics business as a whole this year: the cloud and Microsoft's changes to the Dynamics partner channel.

And we want to take this opportunity to recognize and thank all the Dynamics professionals who have contributed to the site this year.  Thanks to all of you for going above and beyond to produce some outstanding content for the Dynamics community on cutting edge topics and ideas (ordered by when they've last published articles): Mark Polino, Jack Boyer, Raman Dhooria, Victoria Yudin, Will Roche, Andy Leapaldt, Nicki Stewart, Gloria Braunschweig, Sandor Schellenberg, Guus Krabbenborg,